Cicely Saunders - Founder of the Hospice Movement - Clark, David (Professor of Medical Sociology and Director, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK)

Dame Cicely conceived of an approach, for dealing with the variety of symptoms and suffering often experienced by patients, with progressive debilitating disease. This book provides an insight into the establishment of the hospice movement and its development world-wide, as recorded through the letters of its founder.